A Carnival Tangalooma, Moreton Island cruise from Sydney to Tangalooma Island Resort gives you access to one of Australia’s best-kept secrets. Experience snorkelling the famous shipwrecks or go whale watching for an experience you’ll never forget. A 4-day Tangalooma, Moreton Island Cruise from Sydney or Brisbane also offers the chance to take an exhilarating 4WD bus adventure around Tangalooma, Moreton Island, the 3rd largest sand island in the world! From sand tobogganing down the dunes, ATV quad bike tours and scenic helicopter flights to spotting turtles on a clear bottom kayak tour or even a spot of parasailing, this cruise has something for everyone. And enjoy more than 45 onboard activities on our Tangalooma, Moreton Island Cruise.

Moreton Island packs a remarkable range of experiences into a single port day. The Tangalooma Wrecks are the island's most famous snorkelling spot: fifteen deliberately sunk vessels now covered in coral and fish that you can explore from the surface or beneath. The Desert, a dramatic stretch of orange-gold dunes in the island's interior, is the place to hire a sandboard and spend an hour hurtling down slopes that feel far bigger up close than on a map. For wildlife, the wild dolphin feeding at Tangalooma Resort each evening is one of Queensland's most moving natural encounters, with wild bottlenose dolphins gliding in from the Moreton Bay Marine Park. Active types can also paddleboard, kayak or join a guided quad-bike tour of the island's remote northern beaches. The Tangalooma Wrecks are the reason many people book a Moreton Island cruise in the first place, and they rarely disappoint. Between 1963 and 1984, fifteen decommissioned vessels were deliberately scuttled in the shallow waters just off the resort beach, creating one of Queensland's most accessible artificial reef systems. Today, those hulls are draped in hard and soft corals, and the water around them pulses with reef fish, wobbegong sharks, rays, turtles and the occasional octopus.

Because the wrecks sit in just two to five metres of water, you don't need to be a certified diver to explore them; a mask and snorkel are all it takes. For those who want to go deeper, guided scuba dives and night dives are available for certified divers who want to see the reef come alive after dark. Whether you're floating above the rusted deck plates watching parrotfish move through shafts of sunlight or dropping below to explore a bow section encrusted in plate coral, the Tangalooma Wrecks offer a genuinely world-class underwater experience in a remarkably easy-to-reach setting.